coconut wrote:Do fissures hurt so much you need pain relievers?
Honey, fissures hurt so much that even with pain relievers, you might someday find your self doubled over, crying for your mommy because the pain is so bad. Fissure pain made me throw up and almost black out. Fissure pain leads otherwise intelligent people to put honey up their butts in the hopes that it will end the pain. Fissure pain makes us decide that its a good idea to let doctor's cut our sphincter muscles in half to relieve the pain. Fissure pain makes us grind up heart attack medicine and apply it, with our fingers, to the INSIDE of our a$$.
In short, yes. Fissures hurt.

coconut wrote:I would be highly suspicious that the scaring from your first surgery made you more prone to fissures because they narrowed your rectum. None of the ailments you listed as the cause of your surgery would have warranted an LIS procedure, as far as I know. LIS a whole different ball game. Done alone, its suppose to be a relatively easy to recover from surgery, but a lot of advanced cases need the fissurotomy, too. I had both and I'm in a lot of post-operative pain. (Its been three days.)

GGky1959 wrote:

coconut wrote:I would be highly suspicious that the scaring from your first surgery made you more prone to fissures because they narrowed your rectum. None of the ailments you listed as the cause of your surgery would have warranted an LIS procedure, as far as I know. LIS a whole different ball game. Done alone, its suppose to be a relatively easy to recover from surgery, but a lot of advanced cases need the fissurotomy, too. I had both and I'm in a lot of post-operative pain. (Its been three days.)

Sweetie, I hope this helps you. I know its been 3 days, but give it time and please please stay calm and cool and in charge of this.....I've read your post, I know a lot of fear has followed you....but I do believe in my heart, this is gonna be your road to finally finding relief from this awful decease. Although I'm feeling so much better, my stool is starting to harden again and I'm getting nervous....because of my job, I must continue with Aleve and Naproxen to wart off the pain from my job and its taken a toll on my stool, so the fear is definately real for a re tear, which terrorizes the unawa out of me.

thefer74 wrote:Hi
Thank you everyone. It is nice to know that I am not going crazy. I never thought in a million years that I would have to take pain meds to stop or should I say reduce the pain from the fissure. The aching and the pressure is very intense. I don't get the sharp pain like I am passing glass.
I am seeing another surgeon on Wed so I am hoping that we can get some answers. I have noticed that after I have a BM the pain is through the roof for hours. It feels like spasms. I am starting to think that the fissure is causing alot of this but I thought I had surgery to fix it. Now it is a new one or the one that never left.
At this point, I do not want another surgery down there. On the other hand, I don't want to be on pain meds to control the pain.